It's UNIX! I know this! (sound of crashes in the background)

It's just preparing a narrative in the media. No different from what Anthropic did with Mythos and Fable. "Waaa, waa, we could so make money if the bad competitors didn't thwart us and bring our profits down by luring our customers with lower prices"

Remember: it's IPO season for Anthropic and OpenAI. Anything they say now is (more) suspect (than usual).

1. You sure these are the same people? There are LOTS of people in the world, some people complain about spyware AND either don't carry a phone, or carry a dumbphone or run Graphene or something similar.

2. Online shopping and credit card usage can be limited; one can buy their laundry detergent on Amazon with an Amex and still pay for their kink toys in person with cash. One need not opt out of the surveillance tradeoff EVERYWHERE to still desire a means of making private purchases in certain cases.

3. Most of the surveillance done in a car is done after the car has been paid for by the user. Money has changed hands, but the OEM still seems entitled to sell data the driver generates. The selling of the data does not benefit the owner of the vehicle at all, only the person gathering and selling it. This is different than a payment processor or online merchant that provides a service that has some benefit to the user - access to goods not easily available through traditional retail or where retail purchase would involve prohibitive distance or transport requirements being some examples. In the case of credit card companies, yes, they most definitely make money off purchase data...but they also use it to combat fraud and mitigate liability, which cash simply doesn't make possible. And, in the case of smartphones, even stock ones, data harvesting is more selective, and the phone can be left home, while the car cannot. Yes, data is still harvested and used in ways that don't benefit the customer, granted...but it *does* provide a counterbalance that a remotely usable vehicle kill switch does not.

"But muh smartfownnn" is such a lazy and overly reductive argument against a very complex situation that has plenty of room for nuance and specifics.

Is it, though? Serious question, I looked into this some time ago...and they make NO claims of this. They claim they don't have an infotainment system, fine...but that doesn't mean it lacks a GPS tracker, a "tattletale" connection that sends CANBUS/ODBII data back to a mothership somewhere, and/or a remotely accessible kill switch.

If you've got documentation that says that the Slate lacks these things SPECIFICALLY, I'd love to read about it...but when I looked, they made no claims of this and made no spectacle of it in their privacy policy...so 100% sincerely, if you've got a citation for this, I'd LOVE to read it.

Actually, they are just tiny flat Egyptians.

We've all seen the murals, there's always a Pharaoh surrounded by tiny little people doing menial work. Turns out it's not Artistic Perspective at all.

"Fox News" isn't about having a different approach. It's about artificially equalizing bullshit extreme viewpoints with mainstream educated viewpoints. American media (and American viewers) have suffered from this policy for decades now. It's why debates about flat earth, climate change, evolution etc exist endemically in that country.

You're missing the point. Eyes are independent, whereas AIs are correlated.

Nuh uh!

Alan Greenspan will save OpenAI. It's just too big to fail.

That's what
happens after
US companies
force a take over.

Now that we have cheap AI code completion, maybe we should flood the project with patches to steer the code base back towards Unix?

If only he had lived in the US, he could have appealed to the Supreme Court!

You're hallucinating

I disagree. It's not up to a college to get you a degree. If the college deems you to have failed to pass the standard, you should get NO degree.

Why would they have a patch? Sounds like a systemic problem. Maybe think out of the box and add human drivers to supplement the algos? Passengers could take over driving and get a discount on the fare.

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If they're not dependent on Send & Track (or they can't move to Docusign), it fits most office environments I've used it in.